Fauvism: Henri Matisse, Fauvism, Paul Gauguin, Georges Braque, Kees Van Dongen, André Derain, Simbolul, Émilie Charmy, János Mattis-Teutsch

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen, Andr Derain, Antonia Gerstacker, Simbolul, milie Charmy, Eliane de Meuse, J nos Mattis-Teutsch, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Louis Valtat, William Sommer, Tahia Halim, Marcel Mouly, Nils von Dardel, Othon Friesz, Charles Camoin, Henri Manguin, Henri Evenepoel, Rik Wouters, Neo-Fauvism, Blue Nude, Jean Puy, Green Stripe, Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt. Excerpt: Henri Matisse (French pronunciation: 31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Woman Reading, 1894, Museum of Modern Art, ParisHenri- mile-Beno t Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambr sis, Nord, France. He grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardie, France, where his parents owned a flower business; he was their first son. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambr sis after gaining his qualification. He first started to paint in 1889, after his mother brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendi...